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The Doorman

Los Angeles Times readers submitted their views in verse for a feature dedicated to opinion poetry.
Los Angeles Times readers submitted their views in verse for a feature dedicated to opinion poetry.
(Anthony Russo / For The Times )
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Knock and it will be opened.

Ah, said gentle Francis,

fingering the keys of the kingdom

in the pocket of his white cassock.

That door is closed.

There is, of course, a separate entrance

for the so-precious ladies,

around the back,

near the shrine of the Madonna.

But that massive bronze door,

admittedly tarnished,

is closed.

The author is a retired English teacher in Long Beach.

Read more: Opinion poetry by Times readers


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